[crazyfck]

To those who want to understand what happened, here it goes: I was organizing all my stories, drafts and ideas that I can remember at Google Docs

I always wanted to keep them in the cloud instead of my hard drive and, most important, to use Google Docs features to share and to allow people to collaborate. Like I said, they are all neverending stories.

Since I used Gmail since its launch years ago, and trusting Google’s motto ‘don’t be evil’, I believed that they would be different of Yahoo, that deleted my yahoogroup, or deviantart that deleted some 80% of my photoshops at once.

But then, while I was writing, the server denied auto-saving, and then, trying to re-open the doc, I received the bold message: “”You can’t access this document because it is in violation of our Terms of Service.”

Google froze my gmail account, all my docs links received a 404 and they want my mobile phone number to appeal against that.

Maybe my work is offensive to some, I don’t know. But who has the right to judge it offensive or not? Did I infringe any copyright? So tell me what copyright I infringed. But they went for the silence treatment and want to break my anonymity.

I suspect that it all happens to me because of this name Crazyfck, and that’s why I’m thinking in changing it.

[blah8884]

Wow 🙁 I never expected that to happen with google. Not everything was lost right?

But I’m glad to see that you are still around within the community. Keep at it, your stories I find most excellent and I hope that you will triumph over these set backs.

[crazyfck]

Don’t worry, Blah,

miraculously I made a back-up of all files two weeks prior to this silly crisis (not for safety, but just for Pug to mess around without worries). The damned Google docs is so handy, it created a zip file containing all files, so with this you can judge yourself their actions, take a look at the link:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=C9HGK14E

The back-up file has some 15 stories, in various degrees of (no) completion.
it does not have all my stories, The Flavor and some others weren’t there.

I added to this zip the last one that I was working closely with Pug in the last few weeks. It is called “Ripples”. Funny that I backup this story last Sunday just because Google docs got so unstable, otherwise we would lose almost all of it.

I think they used the Copyrights infringement since there was a few of my photoshops in there. It’s the only reasonable explanation, there is no explicit raunchy images.

[Pug]

As they say on Slashdot, IANAL “I am not a Lawyer”, and to the extent my opinion *is* worth anything it’s only applicable to the United States (and to a lesser extent British Commonwealth countries)

That said, I’m an educated layman – as nearly as I can tell the lay of the land, items such as that *should* fall under a fair use/transformative work defense – The original basis is the ‘parody’ concept, but it has been expanded considerably.

Wikipedia has a good article: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Transformativeness

[crazyfck]

I think I’ll just forget it. It’s not a big deal for me, really, it just sucks; and very little was lost, some five pages at the most, and they weren’t very good. The new five pages are much better.

[blah8884]

Woot! I’m glad to hear that not much was lost. I really enjoyed the story Ripples as well… wonder what happens if its 2 minutes…

haha 🙂

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